TWC is a group of volunteer women working on behalf of mothers and their children as they move out of homelessness into transitional housing. With loving compassion, TWC graces their new home with the necessities to begin afresh. Providing new and like-new items, an environment of comfort, warmth, and dignity welcomes these families as they enter a place they can finally call home.
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Thursday, June 18, 2015

A very short recap of our meeting at Rocco’s earlier in the
week as tomorrow I’m headed out of Dodge for a month and my to-do list is a
mile long.It was just a small group who
were able to make the meeting, but it was good fun. Thanks to Nancy for taking notes.

I’d also like to take this opportunity to ask you all to do
as much as possible to help Karen as she holds down the fort, handling
everything from pulling to set-ups to correspondence during my absence.Our committees have been doing a fine job of
ensuring that the families we help are well-provided for but can always use
more volunteers.If you’re interested in
signing up for one of these committees, contact the gals below:

Our Mother’s Day card drive was a great success this year
and many thanks to those of you who make this such a key part of our annual
fundraising efforts.We have had some
interest in non-mother's day cards and only a few days ago a friend called me and asked if we could send
one of our flower cards to some family friends who had recently lost their
mother.She made a donation to TWC and I
sent the card off.So that got us to
talking at the meeting (and we have chatted about it before) that it would be
great to have more vellum printed with simple messages inside such as: Thank
You, Celebrate!, Thinking of You, Congratulations, Happy Birthday (etc) and then
maybe, closer to the holidays, a wintry theme.Deborah Ackrich has some great snow cards she’s going to share with
us.Noelle Berman, do you think you
could help us with some more vellum printing!? We also talked about selling cards at meetings ($5 each) or bundling them and selling sets.

In the last year, children have become more involved with
TWC and we all agree that is pretty wonderful, but that led us to chatting
about the possibility of perhaps creating (with the help of moms with kids
still at home) a Topanga Children’s Circle.This would be a direct offshoot of TWC and we would fund projects the
kids could be involved with such as creating art and craft boxes, but we would love to hear ideas the kids might have. We all agreed that it was great that the children
are keen to help and would love to hear from parents about any ideas they might
have to encourage this community activism among the young.Perhaps a child could write an article for The Messenger about the formation of
this group.Something to think about
anyway.

Our next meeting will be in mid-September and we would like
for you to consider asking a friend who has shown some interest in TWC to come
to this meeting.Consider it a yummy
dinner and membership drive.

And finally, The Topanga Film Festival is just around the
corner and this Friday there’s a special event at Teresa and Bruce Royer’s
beautiful home, Tuscali Mountain Inn.

An invitation is extended to TWC members to join them at
Tuscali for a ‘Friends of the Fest’ appreciation event.

Friday, June 19th, 7:00-9:30 pm

Hors d'oeuvres reception

Entertainment by Topanga Symphony
Quartet

While there is no charge for this event,
consider it a good opportunity to get your ‘Friends of the Fest’ pass.